The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs. Warburton and Warton [&c.]. To which are added, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs, by W.L. Bowles, Volume 101806 |
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... HOURS after MARRIAGE ; a Comedy CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS on the POETIC CHA- RACTER of Mr. POPE - 243 - 361 The LAST WILL and TESTAMENT of Mr. POPE 383 LET- LETTERS FROM MR . POPE ΤΟ MARTHA AND TERESA BLOUNT CONTENTS . xi.
... HOURS after MARRIAGE ; a Comedy CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS on the POETIC CHA- RACTER of Mr. POPE - 243 - 361 The LAST WILL and TESTAMENT of Mr. POPE 383 LET- LETTERS FROM MR . POPE ΤΟ MARTHA AND TERESA BLOUNT CONTENTS . xi.
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... poet was celebrating them , and the printer publishing them . But yourself and your fair sister must needs have been furfeited already with this trifle ; and therefore you have no hopes of entertainment but from the reft of this book ...
... poet was celebrating them , and the printer publishing them . But yourself and your fair sister must needs have been furfeited already with this trifle ; and therefore you have no hopes of entertainment but from the reft of this book ...
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... poets can write in an age , as has been too dearly experienced by the wickedeft of them all , that is to fay , by , Madam , Your most obedient , etc. LETTER II . TO THE SAME . DEAR MADAM , Bath , Sept. 4. * THANK you for many things ...
... poets can write in an age , as has been too dearly experienced by the wickedeft of them all , that is to fay , by , Madam , Your most obedient , etc. LETTER II . TO THE SAME . DEAR MADAM , Bath , Sept. 4. * THANK you for many things ...
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... Poet : let me fee if you dare own what is the pride of a woman ; perhaps one article of it may be , to despise those who think themselves of fome value , and to fhew your friends you can live without thinking of them at all . Do keep ...
... Poet : let me fee if you dare own what is the pride of a woman ; perhaps one article of it may be , to despise those who think themselves of fome value , and to fhew your friends you can live without thinking of them at all . Do keep ...
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... poet expecting immortality ! So may no complaints of unhappy mortals ever more disturb your eternal diver- fions ! Maintain your dignity , bleffed faints ! and scorn to reveal yourselves to fools ( though it be but fair play , for they ...
... poet expecting immortality ! So may no complaints of unhappy mortals ever more disturb your eternal diver- fions ! Maintain your dignity , bleffed faints ! and scorn to reveal yourselves to fools ( though it be but fair play , for they ...
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Termos e frases comuns
Adieu affectionate affure againſt Allen almoſt anſwer Arbuthnot aſk becauſe believe Bell-yard beſt buſineſs CLINKET DEAR MADAM DEAR SIR deferve defire elſe eſteem fafe faid fame fatisfaction feen fend fenfible fent fervices fhall fhew fhould fide fifter fince fincerely finiſhed firſt fome foon fooner Fortefcue FOSSILE fpirits fuch fure garden greateſt happineſs himſelf hope houfe houſe humble fervant huſband incloſed juſt Lady laft laſt leaft leaſt lefs LETTER Lincoln's Inn London Lord Lord Cornbury Lord Peterborough MARTHA BLOUNT Mifs moft moſt faithful muſt myſelf Newfham night obliged occafion paffed paſs perfon pleafed pleaſe pleaſure PLOTWELL POPE Pope's Pray preſent promiſe reaſon ſay ſee ſeen ſhall ſhe ſome ſpeak ſtay ſuch tell thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe told town TOWNLEY Tueſday Twitenham Twitnam unleſs uſe vifit wifh wiſh write yeſterday yourſelf
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Página 127 - Gay, and had almost finished the letter ; but by mistake I took up this instead of it, and so the six lines in a hook are all to him, and therefore you must read them to him, for I will not be at the trouble to write them over again. My greatest concern in the matter is, that I am afraid I continue in love with you, which is hard after near six months
Página 51 - I'll go with her willingly. Nothing can be more affecting and melancholy to me than what I see here: yet he takes my visit so kindly, that I should have lost one great pleasure, had I not come. I have nothing more to say, as I have nothing in my mind but this present object, which indeed is extraordinary. This man was never born to die like other men, any more than to live like them.
Página 126 - Kensington where you will be near the court, and out of his jurisdiction; where you will be teazed with no lectures of gravity and morality, and where you will have no other trouble than to get into the mercer's books, and take up a hundred pounds of your principal for quadrille. Monstrous, indeed, that a fine lady, in the prime of life and gaiety, must take up with an antiquated Dean, an old gentlewoman of fourscore, and a sickly poet. I will stand by my dear Patty against the world, if Teresa beats...